Ch.

E-403
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PLANT DESIGN

Lecture # 1

Dr. Syed Zaheer Abbas

szabbas@uet.edu.pk

Department of Chemical Engineering,

University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
• Introduction to process design and development
• General design considerations
• Optimal design
• Materials of fabrication and their selection
• Material transfer handling and equipment design
• Heat transfer equipment design
• Mass transfer equipment design
• Application of computer aided design software

Course Description
• PEO-1: To prepare graduates with strong technical education for practicing and
applying the principles of Chemical Engineering and with excellent communication
skills to enable them have successful careers in a variety of industrial and
professional environment.
• PEO-2: To prepare graduates for rapidly changing technological environment with
the core knowledge central to multidisciplinary development and personal
improvement throughout their professional careers.
• PEO-3: To enable graduates pursue continued lifelong learning through professional
practice, further graduate education, or other training programs in engineering
sciences or other professional fields.
• PEO-4: To enable graduates achieve professional success with an understanding and
appreciation of ethical behavior, social responsibility, and diversity, both as
individuals and in team environments.

Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)

• Engineering Knowledge: An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science,
engineering fundamentals to the solution of complex engineering problems.
• Problem Analysis: An ability to identify, formulate, research literature, and analyze
complex engineering problems
• Design/Development of Solutions: An ability to design solutions for complex
engineering problems and design systems.
• Investigation: An ability to investigate complex engineering problems in a
methodical way including literature survey, design and conduct of experiments,
analysis and interpretation of experimental data, and synthesis of information to
derive valid conclusions.
• Modern Tool Usage: An ability to create, select and apply appropriate techniques,
resources, and modern engineering and IT tools to complex engineering activities.
• The Engineer and Society

Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

• Environment and Sustainability: An ability to understand the impact of
professional engineering solutions on environment.
• Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and
responsibilities and norms of engineering practice.
• Individual and Team Work: An ability to work effectively, as an individual
or in a team
• Communication: An ability to communicate effectively, orally as well as in
writing, on complex engineering activities with the engineering community
and with society at large.
• Project Management: An ability to demonstrate management skills and
apply engineering principles to one’s own work, as a member and/or leader in
a team, to manage projects in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Lifelong Learning: Ability to recognize importance of, and pursue lifelong
learning in the broader context of innovation and technological developments.
• CLO-1: Create, design, and evaluate alternate processes and equipment
for a chemical process and assess various societal, environmental, and
safety issues associated with such design
• CLO-2: Apply knowledge acquired in core Chemical Engineering
courses (e.g., Stoichiometry, Reaction Engineering, Thermodynamics,
and Unit Operations) for selection and design of materials handling,
heat transfer, and separation process equipment.
• CLO-3: Understand the concept of heat integration for minimization of
overall energy footprint of a chemical process.
• CLO-4: Use process simulation software for process creation and
simulation, equipment sizing and costing, and process optimization

Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)

• SESSIONAL: 30% [(Quiz = 20 %), (Class attendance and
assignments = 10 %)]
• MIDTERM: 30 %
• FINAL TERM: 40 %
• NOTE:
• An attendance of 75% is mandatory to sit in the final examination.

Grading Breakup
Text Book:
• “Plant Design and Economics for
Chemical Engineers” by M. S. Peters,
K. D. Timmerhaus, and R. E. West

BOOKS
• “Ludwig’s Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical
Plants” by A. K. Coker
• “Chemical Process Equipment: Selection and Design” by J. R.
Couper, W. R. Penney, J. R. Fair, and S. M.Walas
• “Equipment Design Handbook: For Refineries and Chemical
Engineers” by F. L. Evans
• “Chemical Process: Design and Integration” by R. Smith
• “The Art of Chemical Process Design” by G. L. Wells, and L. M.
Rose
• “Coulson and Richardson’s Chemical Engineering Volume 6

Reference Books
• Introduction: General overall design considerations:
Process design and flow sheet development, computer
aided design, cost estimation and profitability analysis of
investments, optimum design; practical consideration and
engineering ethics in design

Week 1 Plan
• A successful chemical engineer needs more than a knowledge and
understanding of the fundamental sciences and the related
engineering subjects
• The engineer must also have the ability to apply this knowledge to
practical situations
• Design of new chemical plants and the expansion or revision of
existing ones

Introduction
• Inception
• Preliminary evaluation of economics and market
• Development of data necessary for final design
• Final economic evaluation
• Detailed engineering design
• Procurement
• Erection
• Startup and trial runs
• Production

Process Design Development

• Plant design includes all engineering aspects involved in the
development of either a new, modified, or expanded industrial
plant.
• Design engineer
• Cost engineer
• Process engineer
• Plant location, plant layout, materials of construction, structural
design, utilities, buildings, storage, materials handling, safety,
waste disposal, federal, state, and local laws or codes, and patents.

General overall design consideration